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Faculty Members:
David F. Dinges, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Department: Psychiatry
Contact information
Chief, Division of Sleep and Chronobiology
Director, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
1013 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Director, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
1013 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Office: 215-898-9949
Fax: 215-573-6410
Fax: 215-573-6410
Email:
dinges@mail.med.upenn.edu
dinges@mail.med.upenn.edu
Education
A.B. (Psychology)
Saint Benedict's College, Honors, 1971.
M.S. (Physiological Psychology)
Saint Louis University, 1974.
Washington University, Central Institute for the Deaf, 1975.
Ph.D. (Physiological Psychology)
Saint Louis University, 1976.
M.A. (Honorary)
University of Pennsylvania , 1993.
A.B. (Psychology)
Saint Benedict's College, Honors, 1971.
M.S. (Physiological Psychology)
Saint Louis University, 1974.
Washington University, Central Institute for the Deaf, 1975.
Ph.D. (Physiological Psychology)
Saint Louis University, 1976.
M.A. (Honorary)
University of Pennsylvania , 1993.
Post-Graduate Training
Postdoctoral Fellow, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital and University of Pennsylvania, 1977-1979.
Research Psychologist, Neurology and Human Development, The Children's Hospital National Medical Center and The George Washington University Medical School, 1975-1977.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital and University of Pennsylvania, 1977-1979.
Research Psychologist, Neurology and Human Development, The Children's Hospital National Medical Center and The George Washington University Medical School, 1975-1977.
Certifications
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Description of Research Expertise
Sleep; chronobiology; human neurobehavioral functions; cognitive performance; psychophysiological asssessmentDescription of Clinical Expertise
pathological and excessive sleepinessDescription of Other Expertise
human behavior and performance functioning in space flightSelected Publications
Van Dongen, H.P.A., Mott, C.G., Huang, J-K, Mollicone, D.J., McKenzie, F.D., Dinges, D.F: Optimization of biomathematical model predictions for cognitive performance impairment in individuals: accounting for unknown traits and uncertain states in homeostatic and circadian processes running head: performance prediction in individuals. Sleep 30(9): 1125-1139, 2007.Basner, M., Fomberstein, K., Razavi, F.M., William, J., Simpson, N., Rosa, R., Dinges, D.F: American Time Use Survey: Sleep time and its relationship to waking activities. Sleep 30(9): 1081-1091, 2007.
Dinges, D.F., Venkataraman, S., McGlinchey, E.L., Metaxas, D.N: Monitoring of facial stress during space flight: Optical computer recognition combining discriminative and generative methods. Acta Astronautica 60: 341-350, 2007.
Scott, L.D., Hwang, W.-T., Rogers, A.E., Nysse, T., Dean, G.E., Dinges, D.F: The relationship between nurse work schedules, sleep duration, and drowsy driving. Sleep 3(12): 1801 - 1807, 2007.
Dinges, D.F., Arora, S., Darwish, M., Niebler, G.E: Pharmacodynamic effects on alertness of single doses of armodafinil in healthy subjects during a nocturnal period of acute sleep loss. Current Medical Research and Opinions 22(1): 159-167, 2006.
Chee, M.W.L., Chuah, L.Y.M., Venkatraman, V., Chan, W.Y., Philip, P., Dinges, D.F: Functional imaging of working memory following normal sleep and after 24 and 35 h of sleep deprivation: Correlations of fronto-parietal activation with performance. NeuroImage 31: 419-428, 2006.
Chuah, Y.M.L., Venkatraman, V., Dinges, D.F., Chee, M.W.L: The neural basis of inter-individual variability in inhibitory efficiency following sleep deprivation. The Journal of Neuroscience 26(27): 7156-7162, 2006.
Ellenbogen, J.M., Hulbert, J.C., Stickgold, R., Dinges, D.F., Thompson-Schill, S.L: Interfering with theories of sleep and memory: sleep, declarative memory, and associative interference. Current Biology 16: 1290-1294, 2006.
Pack, A.I., Maislin, G., Pack, F.M., George, C., Staley, B.,George, C.F.P, Rogers, W., Dinges, D.F.: Impaired performance in commercial drivers: Role of Sleep Apnea and sleep duration. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 174: 446-454, 2006.
Wang, J., Wetmore, G.S., Rao, H., Furlan, P.M., Korczykowski, M.. Dinges, D.F., Detre, J.A.: The stressed brain — perfusion fMRI reveals cerebral blood flow pattern under psychological stress. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(49): 17804-17809, 2005.
